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  • Can a cleaner cookstove save lives?

    Hari Sreenivasan

    February 01, 2017 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Ghana, Kintampo

    Cooking over a wood or charcoal stove can cause serious health complications including pneumonia and cardiac disease, yet women in developing countries often have no other options. In Ghana, clean cook stoves are being distributed to women in collaboration with a study about the effect that the new stoves have on the health of these women and their children. So far, the women are enjoying spending the time that they used to spend collecting wood for cooking with their children or in school. This study is ongoing but early results indicate an overall improvement in health in clean cook stove households.

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  • The Sesame Street of Sex Ed: Ugandan Show Uses Puppets to Break Taboos

    Amy Fallon

    December 08, 2016 |

    News Deeply |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Uganda has some of the highest fertility and HIV prevalence rates in the world. Yet the government has banned comprehensive sexuality education in schools, and parents feel uncomfortable talking about the taboo subject. So Chicken & Chips, a television show about puppets, was created to educate the country’s young people about sexual and reproductive health.

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  • Malawi: Combating maternal deaths with innovations

    Brian Ligomeka

    November 28, 2016 |

    Center for Solutions Journalism Malawi (CSJ News) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Malawi, Balaka

    Women in Malawi face numerous challenges in reproductive health, especially HIV-positive mothers, and maternal deaths are still rampant in rural areas of the country. Technology is helping change the landscape of maternal health, with devices such as cell phones being used to provide women in rural villages with vital health information, and drones delivering medications where the roads are too rough for emergency services to access quickly.

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  • How Cuba came of age on early childhood development

    Kary Stewart

    November 16, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Cuba, Havana

    The Cuban government provides optional early childhood care programs that are used by almost all Cuban children. They begin with prenatal care and focus on family involvement, healthcare, and education. The program is a source of pride for families. It's so successful that Unicef is working to scale it for other Latin American countries.

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  • Colombia Is Hit Hard by Zika, but Not by Microcephaly

    Julia Symmes Cobb Donald G. McNeil Jr.

    October 31, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Colombia

    In Brazil, more than 2,000 babies have been born with microcephaly, abnormally small heads and brain damage caused by the Zika virus. Colombia is the second hardest hit country by Zika but abortions lowered the microcephaly rate because of looser abortion laws and better informed mothers.

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  • Medicaid Finds Opportune Time to Offer Birth Control: Right After Birth

    Sabrina Tavernise

    October 28, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Columbia, South Carolina

    In South Carolina, a Medicaid program is offering long-acting contraceptives during a new mother’s hospital stay, while she is still eligible for the benefit. Other states are following suit.

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  • Saving babies means thinking inside the box

    Brittany Schock

    September 27, 2016 |

    Richland Source |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    Richland County, OH has a 7.3 percent infant mortality rate per 1,000 infants born, which is one point higher than the national rate. The rate is influenced by socio-economic issues and a lack of pre-and post-natal care. Different programs and organizations in Richland County confront these factors by expanding access to prenatal health care and expanding services to minority communities for infant care.

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  • Safe Passage: Access to Abortion in India

    Sarita Santoshini

    August 11, 2016 |

    Bitch Media |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Patna, Bihar

    Cultural stigmas, a lack of information, and shortages of qualified providers mean that - despite being a legal process - millions of women in India still suffer and die from botched and back-ally abortions each year. The Ipas Development Foundation is working to change perceptions and save lives by providing training and certifications to healthcare workers, passing out free contraception, helping break social taboos, and distributing informational resources communicating women's rights to reproductive healthcare.

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  • Brazil Slashes Child Mortality Rates With Breastfeeding, Milk Banks

    Eleanor Goldberg

    August 02, 2016 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    Child mortality is a global problem that can be reduced by increasing breastfeeding rates; however, many mothers are either under too much cultural pressure, need to work, or cannot lactate enough milk. Brazil has devised an education program to help mothers breastfeed and has also created milk banks, through which mothers can donate excess milk to mothers who cannot produce. Additionally, Brazil offers paid maternity leave for mothers who have time to breastfeed and provide better health for their bodies as well as their new babies.

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  • Liberia after Ebola: Turning midwives into surgeons

    Tlaleng Mofokeng

    July 25, 2016 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Liberia

    In Liberia, about 3 women die from complications due to childbirth every day. In a country that is drastically medically underserved, doctors are training midwives to perform Cesarean sections and resuscitate babies without help from a supervising physician. This solution is allowing more women to safely deliver their babies without having to wait for unavailable physicians who may not be able to respond quickly enough to save the lives of the mother and child.

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